Presentation

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese’s Motus Sodalis Presents:

Cinema UrGENTE:
Urgency and Alter-mundialization in Mozambican Cinema



A Presentation by Cassandra Tesch

The vision of this talk is to provide an overview of the history of Mozambican Cinema from Revolution to Neo-Liberalism. We will discuss the major periods of cinematic expression in Mozambique, beginning with the Cinema-Novo inspired Kuxa-Kanema documentary newsreels of the 1970’s to the privatization of national film in the post-civil war era. We will pay considerable attention to the recent works by both young and senior cineastes whose films are informed by a sense of local and international political urgency. We will discuss how some of the new films coming out of Mozambique return to their revolutionary roots in a way that lends to an alter-mundialist cinema, while at the same time forging a presence for Mozambique in Global cinema.

Friday, March 5th, 2010
3pm
Rolfe Hall 4302 – Nourishments provided ☺

Cassandra Tesch is a Masters Candidate in African Studies at UCLA. This discussion is rooted in her thesis project entitled From Kuxa-Kanema to Dockanema: 35 years of Mozambican Cinema. Cassandra’s research is concentrated in the cultures of the Lusophone world, with a focus on art as a tool of non-violent social change. She is a graduate student instructor of Portuguese in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese.